Chapter Four
The next morning at the newspaper office, Kelly dressed in her baby blue summer suit, the demure one she wore when she had meetings with the top brass of the paper. Not that she expected that kind of meeting, but perhaps she needed to remind herself that she wasn’t all t**s and ass and sultry smiles.
“How’d you do with Gray?” Tad asked, when he arrived.
“We ended it,” she said.
“Oops.” He looked chagrined.
“No, it should have happened a long time ago. It wasn’t anything more than a relationship of convenience. Like two old shoes we’d grown accustomed to each other. I guess I got a little more real with myself, and he didn’t handle it very well.”
“I’m sorry anyway,” Tad added. “Cutting ties is never easy.”
“Sounds like you’ve had experience?” she said.
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